Chapter Writing Exercises

Chimpanzees sometimes seem uncannily human, especially in their use of tools and language. Neither the gorilla, nor the orangutan, both close relatives of the chimp, exhibit such behavior.

Chimps employs a number of tools in their everyday lives. They dine by inserting sticks into insect nests and then licking their utensils clean. Each of these intelligent animals also crack fruit and nuts with stones. What's more, chimpanzees creates their own tools. They make their eating sticks by cleaning leaves from branches. They even attaches small sticks together to make longer rods for getting at hard-to-reach insects. Some of the other tools chimps make is fly-whisks, sponges of chewed bark, and leaf-rags to clean themselves with. Scientists on safari has observed infant chimps imitating their parents' use of these tools.

Recent experiments indicate that chimpanzees probably also understands language though they lack the physical ability to speak. There are little doubt that they can comprehend individual words. Using sign language and keyboards, some chimps in captivity use nearly 200 words. This vocabulary includes nouns, verbs, and prepositions. Hunger and affection is needs that they have expressed by punching keyboard symbols. Do chimps has the ability to string words into sentences? Intriguingly, one chimp named Lucy has shows that she understand the difference between such statements as “Roger tickles Lucy” and “Lucy tickles Roger.”

Scientists still argue about just how much language a chimpanzee truly comprehend. However, no one who have watched them closely doubt the intelligence of these remarkable beings.

Chapter 28, Exercise 6, pgs. 407-409

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